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Did you know that the Players Club on Gramercy Park South was founded by Edwin Booth, the celebrated 19th-century Shakespearean actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth? Booth purchased the townhouse in 1888 and commissioned architect Stanford White to redesign it into a social club for actors and other artists. Notable former and current members of the club include Mark Twain, John Barrymore, Eugene O'Neill, Gregory Peck, Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, Liza Minnelli and Jimmy Fallon.